I played fourth beta and Hype doesn’t seem to be that useful. Has /anyone/ found a use for it as it is? Sometimes it makes for decent shenanigans if you can read a sweep or a slow air attack, but I am sort of disappointed it doesn’t help deal with fireballs like it seemed it was intended for during the initial reveal.
I had a day like that yesterday. I swear their match up algorithm is designed to randomly give you a hard time just to remind you there is always someone stronger.
u talking about the mic, Handred?
Basically, in any situation where you would do the mic, in seeing high level replays ppl whiffing grabs instead to build meter. You can still use it against fireballs, but this isn’t SFIV so you should probably be getting around fireballs a different way…
I believe every tool has a use for variety’s/mindgame sake, but still…unless we get buffs, not seeing a use for the mic.
As has been shown in this subforum, you can technically use it, but you could also technically just taunt all game and only take the game serious at 1 pixel of life.
Every time you see a Necalli player, think to yourself “this person would be playing Akuma” and the math will look the same.
For matchmaking… I think after the tiers have been filled up that a 1000 point range will be more managable. The thing is with the game just starting the higher tiers are not nearly at capacity. This means there are a lot of players still growing from high silver and gold that belong above gold in time… So right now 1000 point spread is harsh. I think in a few months this will not be the case anymore.
I kinda had to say that to myself to keep myself sane. I dropped from 2300 to 1700… From 2300 to sub 2000 was all 3000+ players, but then I lost to 2 bronze players and thought… ya know… it may have started as a matchmaking troll, but now it’s just me… I cleaned up my game and came back to 2000+, felt great about the recovery, then got matched with some 3900 chun li haha XD I was left at like 2001 points after that loss… I quit while I was ahead 
I’m still silver XD
I was thinking… when I first saw Necalli… That this was their non-shoto re-invention of the character to keep that same demon spirit without being another shoto. I think they did a good job of dropping shoto down a notch.
I beat a rank 38 birdie player the other day. Got almost 300 lp from him since im only a silver lol
Not exactly sure how good he is…for some reason the guy let me just go to town on him.
It’s official: I hate Ken!
I played fourth beta and Hype doesn’t seem to be that useful. Has /anyone/ found a use for it as it is? Sometimes it makes for decent shenanigans if you can read a sweep or a slow air attack, but I am sort of disappointed it doesn’t help deal with fireballs like it seemed it was intended for during the initial reveal.
That was the Shoryuken forum save draft adding something in from like a month ago @OilyKoryuken Can’t believe I totally missed it.
R.Mika hate all over SRK and Neogaf, delicious. During SFIV era I was asking for her come back and everyone was like “you just want ass, she was bad in A3 nobody will play her in SFV either”.
asking for a character and playing that character are two different things;
see:
Strider Hiryu in UMVC3
Techies in DOTA 2
Made a new R.Mika rank match highlight.
・Have been trying to use more meaty st.mp for okizeme instead of just doing f.hp every time lol, especially in the setup that f.hp can get jabbed out.
・Practicing blocked f.hp to Brimstone. Still missed the walk after hcb sometimes.
・After midscreen rope throw and backdash, don’t know which is better between (lp peach - lp wingles airplane) or (forward dash - cr.hp). Peach gives meter but cr.hp seems to be better for setup.
Looks like TSabin has picked up mika, or at least has started playing her in ranked. He’s #1 online so we may have a new source of videos to watch boyz/girlz
People went from “she’s unplayable, she’s bottom 2” to “she’s top tier, she’s broken, she’s all gimmicks and no neutral”
=)
How does the saying go? If you don’t got any haters your not doing anything?
Peoples reaction to Mika is bizarre. I’m not saying she’s garbage or broken because I don’t know, but Arturo went on and on about how broken she is. Here’s his reasons:
Her back throw is too good.
She has frame advantage after jabs.
Dhalsim doesn’t kill in one hit.
On a related note, here’s Gootecks reasoning for thinking that Laura is really good:
“She has a fireball”. What about the fireball you say? Fuck you. Top tier.
And PR Balrog:
“She has a command dash”. What’s good about the command dash you ask? Fuck you. Command dash for life asshole. Don’t worry bout it.
I don’t know what the fuck is going on. I expected top players to have a bit more solid reasoning than your average capcom unity regular. Just a lil bit more than pairing a randomly picked move with a randomly picked opinion.
This is sooooo good. I’ll definitley be watching it a few times to see what I need to encorporate. Have you tried doing the Cr.HP after the CC F.HP? Was messing around in training mode and you can switch sides pretty easily if you time the forward dash after the hit (dash immediately after to cross under and delay a but to stay on same side). I’m sure someone already figured that out just trying to see if you or anyone has had any luck landing it for a 50/50 mix up situation in a match. Good stuff though keep it coming
IMO I’d stand by what Viscant has said until people start giving non-Kappa answers and explaining their choices.
BTW, R. Mika hit/hurt/grab/etc.-box info released - http://eish.deviantart.com/gallery/58172993/Street-Fighter-V-Hitboxes
I think there is hype about her being over powered only because the game is new, and people are still adjusting to the mechanics. Even pro players are still learning and adjusting. Mika will be like Fuerte. She will be considered extremely op by some, except that she won’t appear much because she actually isn’t.
People saying Mika is top tier because what some players say are just dumb. Marn had the best solution to beat Mika… and I agree based on playing others…
MASH THAT DP! (and if you’re Cammy, MASH IT TWICE AS FAST!)
ugh, I hope she’s not as bad off as fuerte. Playing fuerte in SFIV seems like willingly playing a Dark Souls game.
Maybe Alex won’t get nerfed to pieces…
I think Mika’s more susceptible to reversal DP’s, everything she does relies on her being very close, too early to say anyones broken at the moment, hell Bison feels to me like the strongest character but what the hell do i know. At least no ones as shocking as Vanilla Sagat was
Mika’s DP is better than Vanilla Seth’s B)